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National championships aren't worth what they used to be, at least not if you're coaching in Nick Saban's neighborhood.
There's only one reason to fire a coach in September, and that's to beat the competition to the HOT NAME.
It's always a good time to be Jimmy Sexton.
UPDATE: If this doesn't describe college football circa 2016, I don't know what does.
Yeah, wouldn't it be terrible if somehow LSU came back to win the West this season? Think of the children!

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There are some things you can always seem to count on in the video game industry. Activision is always working on a new Call of Duty game. Ubisoft's Beyond Good and Evil sequel is always "just around the corner." The PlayStation 3 is constantly hitting its stride. And Apple is perpetually on the verge of releasing a living room video game console that will revolutionize everything.
The latest person to buy into this never-ending speculation is none other than Valve co-founder Gabe Newell. He pontificated about an Apple console when speaking yesterday to a class at the University of Texas' LBJ School of Public Affairs. As Polygon reports, Newell told the class that Apple, and not the existing console makers, is the real threat to Valve's pending entry into the living room hardware market:
"The threat right now is that Apple has gained a huge amount of market share and has a relatively obvious pathway towards entering the living room with their platform. I think that there's a scenario where we see sort of a dumbed-down living room platform emerging—I think Apple rolls the console guys really easily. The question is can we make enough progress in the PC space to establish ourselves there and also figure out better ways of addressing mobile before Apple takes over the living room?"
It's hard to blame Newell for trying to be prepared, I suppose. Succeeding in business often means expecting the unexpected and planning for every contingency. But the thing that really gets me about this quote is the matter-of-fact way Newell considers a pending Apple console play. It doesn't matter that Apple has shown almost no official interest in gaming on the TV since 1996's ill-fated Pippin, and that Apple CEO Tim Cook said as recently as last May that he is "not interested in being in the console business in what is thought of as traditional gaming." That doesn't matter—Apple could still "roll the console guys easily" and will "take over the living room" at the drop of a hat, whenever it decides it wants to. The company has only held off doing so for this long because... um... hmm...
But wait, this isn't just some random blogger saying this. This is Gabe Newell, a big name executive at a major gaming company. Does he maybe have insider info that the rest of us don't? In fact, now that I think about it, didn't Apple CEO Tim Cook meet with Valve last year? And didn't some "insider sources" detail some sort of game-playing Apple television set right after that meeting?
No so fast. Newell said shortly after those rumors circulated that Cook never actually visited Valve after all. And that rumored, gaming-powered Apple TV set was supposed to come out before the end of 2012... so maybe that information wasn't so reliable after all. But don't let that dissuade you—Apple is "still working on gaming."
This kind of thing keeps happening. Way back in 2006, it was the Mac Mini that was going to "advance over the video game market," and Apple was supposedly hiring game programmers for a super-secret project. In the years since, it has taken little-to-no concrete information to get the Apple game console rumor mill churning again. In 2008, it was a gaming-related trademark filing that got things going. In 2009, TUAW was amassing the evidence for an Apple game console from scraps like the company's hiring of former gaming executives. In 2010, Steve Jobs' mention of "strategic opportunities in the future" somehow meant that Apple was going to buy Sony with its spare cash. In 2011, Time magazine asked if this was the year Apple would launch a video game console (the answer, in case you were wondering, was "No"). Analysts, of course, have never let go of the idea that the Apple TV game console is "coming soon."
These days, it's the Apple TV that is most often cited as the stealth entry point for Apple's "ultimate game console," simply by allowing the thousands of iOS games to access the TV. Never mind that controlling games designed for a touchscreen might not be the most natural thing to do on a living room HDTV (no, things like iPad or Magic Trackpad controls don't instantly solve this problem). Apple did file a patent to let other devices act as Apple TV controllers, including what looks a lot like Sony's DualShock, but the vast majority of iOS games are not currently designed with this kind of control scheme in mind. For those that are, if people really want to play them on a TV with button controls, there are third-party devices that already add this functionality. Others are jumping on rumors of a new Apple TV graphics chip as evidence that the box will soon support 3D games, but there could just as easily be innocuous supply chain explanations for such a change.
I can see why the idea of an Apple game console is so alluring. The iPhone and iPod touch came out of nowhere to form a major gaming platform that has already decimated the market for dedicated handheld game systems from Sony and Nintendo. But those iOS devices largely succeeded on their own merits first as media and communication devices before there was even an App Store for game developers to work on. They only became gaming powerhouses after there was a sufficient installed base for other purposes.
Apple has now sold more than 10 million Apple TVs, but the 5-year-old streaming box has often been referred to as a "hobby" inside Cupertino. It's certainly possible that millions more will rush out to scoop up an Apple TV if Apple ports all its iOS games over, but at this point that's putting the cart before the horse a bit. Plus, if people are hankering for games like Angry Birds on their TV, they can already play them on devices like the Roku 2.
Sure, it's impossible to prove a negative, and if Apple does decide to make a move for TV-based gaming, there will be tons of people saying they told us so. But even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Apple may eventually take a run at the game console market, but those claiming that move is perpetually "just around the corner" are like prophets constantly moving the date for Armageddon as their previously predicted doomsday passes by without incident.


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PITTSBURGH – The Andy Warhol Museum has launched a live video feed from the pop artist's gravesite to honor his 85th birthday.
The project, a partnership with the EarthCam webcam network, went live Monday at midnight.
Museum director Eric Shiner said the project is titled 'Figment' because of a Warhol quote in which the artist said: 'I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say, 'Figment."
The gravestone in a Pittsburgh suburb has Warhol's name, the dates of his birth and death and a cross. Warhol's 85th birthday would have been Tuesday.
Shortly after dawn Tuesday, the live video showed a star-shaped silver balloon and two smaller black-and-white balloons swaying gently in the breeze, next to a headstone surrounded by flowers and some decorative grasses.
Shiner said the museum, which is based in Pittsburgh, Warhol's hometown, decided that the gravesite webcam 'would be a really fantastic way to put Andy on the air 24/7 and plug in to our global audience.'
'We believe that this will give Warhol the pleasure of knowing that he is still plugged in and turned on over 25 years after his death,' Shiner said.
Warhol, who died in 1987, was a devout Catholic who went to church every day to pray, Shiner said. He's buried near his parents at the St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park.
The Warhol gravesite also is documented in artist Madelyn Roehrig's ongoing art project 'Figments: Conversations with Andy.' Roehrig videotapes people who visit the grave and photographs the many objects adoring fans leave there.
Hundreds of people visit Warhol's grave every year, often leaving pop culture items featured in his artworks, such as Campbell's Soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles.
EarthCam said it also will have a live webcam from the church where Warhol was baptized and people will be able to send flowers and watch as they are delivered to the grave.
Online: warhol.org/figment


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Pomegranate Supermarket has been running a cooking demo series called Cooking with Class. Their guest Chef, this past Monday, was award winning cookbook author Susie Fishbein. In a friendly and entertaining manner, she demonstrated three fish dishes.
- Miso Glazed Cod
- Blackened Tilapia or Red Snapper
- Sole en Papillote
She explained how to ensure that the fish, whether filleted or whole, is absolutely fresh as that would guarantee a non fish smelling or fish tasting dish. After each dish was done (and all three were done in minutes!), samples were given out for the audience to savor. Those of you who have been following these pages for a while, know that I'm not a fish fan (until just over a year ago I'd always refused to get near a fish dish). On Monday, like the rest of the audience, I savored these delicious finned creatures… because they neither smelled nor tasted fishy!
Of the dishes demonstrated, my favorite was the second one and Mrs. Fishbein graciously agreed to share the recipe.
Blackened Tilapia or Red Snapper
This dish is an authentic Cajun, mouth-on-fire delicacy. Blackened refers to the spices, not the lack of cooking prowess. If you are worried about the heat, only coat one side of the fish with the spice mixture, although it will still be hot. I like to make a batch of the spices and keep them in a baby food jar so that dinner preparation on this dish (it's also great on thinly pounded chicken breast) is a snap. If you have a cast iron skillet, it is the way to go. If not, use a nonstick frying pan and get it very hot as well. Warn your guests, pour a big pitcher of ice water and enjoy!
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
- 1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
- 1 cup butter, melted
- 4 (6 ozs) tilapia or red snapper fillets
- 4 medium fresh tomatoes, each cut in half, trimmed tops so they seat flat
- oregano
- sour cream
- Spray a large frying pan or well-seasoned cast iron skillet with nonstick cooking spray. In a flat plate combine the onion powder, garlic powder, cayenne, white pepper, paprika, thyme, oregano and basil. Mix well.
- Dredge each fillet in the melted butter, then coat with the spice mixture in one or both sides. reserve the melted butter.
- If using a cast-iron skillet, get it very hot. If not, heat the frying pan over medium -high heat until very hot but not smoking.
- Carefully place the fillets in the skillet and sear about 3-5 minutes or until blackened. Pour 1 tablespoon of reserved melted butter on each fillet. Flip the fish over and pour 1 tablespoon of of melted butter over each fillet and blacken the other side, about 2-3 minutes. If you only spiced one side the second side won't get black, just cook the fish through until it's done. Remove fish to dinner plates.
- Brush the tomato halves with the melted butter and sprinkle with oregano. sear the tomatoes in the frying pan about 3 minutes or until soft. Flip the other side and cook 1-2 minutes longer.
- Serve each fillet with a big dollop of sour cream and two tomato halves.
Yield: 4 servings
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!
Mrs. Fishbein will be back at Pomegranate on Tuesday, March 8, to demonstrate how to cook Grouper and Mahi Mahi and again on Monday, March 14 to demo her techniques for Halibut. Can't wait to learn from her!


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Museums team up to digitize Warhol films
NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of films by Andy Warhol will be digitized and made available for public screening under a museum partnership.
The project was announced Thursday by New York City's Museum of Modern Art, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and visual effects firm MPC. It covers some 500 films that Warhol created between 1963 and 1972.
Nearly 1,000 rolls of 16mm film will be digitally scanned into high-resolution images. The process will begin this month and take several years to complete.
The films themselves have been housed at MoMA since the early 1990s.
The Pittsburgh-born Warhol died in 1987 at age 58. He was one of the most prominent American artists of the 20th century.
Warhol worked in various media including painting, printmaking, photography and film.


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The United States marked 238 years as an independent nation and celebrated the Fourth of July with fireworks, food and music. Nature and politics also played a role this year, with Hurricane Arthur crashing holiday parties along the East Coast and subdued festivities in Moscow amid growing anti-American sentiment over the crisis in Ukraine. Here are some highlights of Independence Day celebrations across the globe:
Tens of thousands of people crammed the narrow cobble stone streets of a landmark seaport and the closed lanes of a riverfront highway to watch the Macy's Fourth of July fireworks show in New York City.
A brilliant 25-minute show of reds, whites and blues lit up the sky from three barges on the East River, sandwiched between Brooklyn and lower Manhattan — and even some from the Brooklyn Bridge itself.
Macy's says more than 1,600 shells were launched per minute during the display. It's the nation's largest Fourth of July fireworks celebration.
One World Trade Center marked the holiday by lighting its 400-foot antenna red, white and blue.
Other major fireworks shows were being held in Chicago on Lake Michigan and in San Francisco over the bay.
The first hurricane of the season, Arthur, forced many East Coast cities to switch the dates of their Fourth of July celebrations. Boston officials moved the annual Boston Pops July 4 concert and fireworks from Friday to Thursday. Then they cut short the concerts so the fireworks could begin. Shortly after the dazzling display thundered to a close, a drenching rain began falling. Meanwhile, several cities in Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey moved their fireworks shows to either Saturday or Sunday. Augusta, Maine, moved its fireworks to Aug. 2.
When it crossed North Carolina's Outer Banks late Thursday, Arthur narrowly missed becoming the first hurricane to make landfall on July Fourth, according to National Hurricane Center research that dates to the 1850s.
In Phoenix, the first dust storm of the summer arrived with blinding winds that forced the cancellation of holiday plans, knocked out power and grounded flights.
In Washington, composer John Williams debuted a new arrangement of "The Star-Spangled Banner" featuring choirs, trumpets, an orchestra and cannons on the National Mall.
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the national anthem. Francis Scott Key was inspired by the sight of the flag over Baltimore's Fort McHenry in September 1814 after a 25-hour British bombardment.
A fireworks display set against the Washington Monument electrified the night sky, along with the screens of thousands of smartphones in the hands of onlookers poised to snap photos for their friends and family who couldn't make it to annual the Independence Day celebration in the nation's capital.
Earlier, thousands of people celebrated the Fourth in the nation's capital under clear skies, despite initial fears rain could ruin their fun. Visitors to the Mall gazed at the White House and the Washington Monument and strolled through the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, which featured food, music and cultural demonstrations.
High-ranking chowhound Joey "Jaws" Chestnut dropped to one knee and proposed to his longtime girlfriend before Friday's annual Coney Island hot dog eating contest, then packed away 61 franks and buns to hold onto his coveted mustard yellow winner's belt. The San Jose, California, man fell far short of his record last year of 69 dogs and buns, but he still easily beat second-place finisher Matt Stonie, also of San Jose, who downed just 56.
Vice President Joe Biden, addressing the annual "Celebration of Freedom" ceremony at Independence Hall, said the lessons of the civil rights movement show that the struggle for freedom that began in Philadelphia more than two centuries ago is not over.
Julie Buchanan, treasurer of Democrats Abroad, planned to celebrate at a Toronto bar with red, white and blue sparklers, about 125 of her American ex-pat friends, and life-size cut-outs of President Barack Obama and the first lady.
"We really miss the patriotism of America; so many of us crave that sense of pride and camaraderie from back home," said Buchanan, an Alabama native who moved to Toronto from Memphis, Tennessee, in 2000.
The national anthems of both Russia and the United States played at the traditional July 4 garden party held at the stately residence of the American ambassador in Moscow. But far fewer Russians than usual came, either because they were unwilling to be seen associating with American diplomats or because their anti-American statements had gotten them scratched off of the guest list.
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Despite the claim on this week's People magazine cover, Jennifer Lopez DOES have one regret: Camp J. Lo is intensely unhappy with the cover photo, accompanying an interview with the star that is timed precisely to upstage Mariah Carey's judging stint on American Idol. Unfortunately, the plan backfired, as Lopez allegedly thinks it makes her look like a haggard old crone crouching in a bizarre position. Lopez's "friends" are also "comparing the singer and former Idol judge's wide-eyed look and stick-straight hair to eccentric 70-year-old fashion designer Betsey Johnson."
Okay, so it's not the best photograph that J. Lo has ever taken, but it's a very flattering picture of active PTA member Mrs. Barbara Hodge of Teaneck, New Jersey, momentarily glancing up from ladling her crowd-pleasing baked ziti onto kids' paper plates at the Drama Club Potluck Dinner. Like that is THE face you make when you're spending the evening watching 20 adolescents with hormonal voice changes sing the same song from Wicked. [Page Six]
In which Khloe Kardashian Odom (more like Khloe Kardashian SO DUMB, am I right?!???!! Take my wife, please!!) bites the applique-manicured hand that feeds her in a post on her blog entitled "Enough Is Enough":
"It is disgusting that Life & Style and InTouch magazines continue to print these false stories about my life: the status of my marriage, false reports about a miscarriage, the horrible lie that my dad is not my biological father, jealousy over my sisters' lives, etc. It is a complete waste of time to address these reports every time they print these ridiculous and absurd tabloid stories, but not only are these stories untrue, they're also unfair to the people who buy the magazines expecting to read accurate reports."
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At long last, Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey that he indulged in EPO, blood doping and use of testosterone to win his seven straight Tour de France titles, an achievement that he now says would have been physically "impossible" without the enhancements.
"I know the truth. The truth isn't what was out there. The truth wasn't what I said. This story was so perfect for so long. You overcome the disease, you win the Tour de France seven times, you have a happy marriage, you have children. I mean it's just this mythic perfect story, and it wasn't true. [...] I was used to controlling everything in my life. I controlled every outcome in my life. Now the story is so bad and so toxic, and a lot of it's true." [USA Today]
At a book party, Vulture asked Michael J. Fox about the Golden Globes joke about wide-eyed romantic/predatory song-material-gathering siren millionairess Taylor Swift and Fox's son Sam. Fox admitted that he didn't keep up with the Youngs these days, "but Taylor Swift writes songs about everybody she goes out with, right?" He admitted that although he wouldn't recognize her, he'd realize it when the song was on the radio "[called] 'Sam, You Piece of Shit.' Oh… that was the girl you brought home!" [Vulture]
27-year-old Patrick Leach, the son of the woman who created Barney & Friends, was arrested for the attempted murder of a Malibu man. [TMZ]
- Michael Jackson's dermatologist Dr. Arnie Klein took to Facebook to compare a photo of Prince Jackson with his own driver's license as a younger man. Caption: "Hmmmm." Admittedly, a serious resemblance. [World of Wonder]
- Brooke Mueller is off the hook for coke possession. [TMZ]
- If you have $75 million, you can sign T.I. to your record label. Go for it. [TMZ]
- Annnd here's Steve Harvey happy-crying. [Bossip]
- Jennifer Lawrence had a blast doing SNL this week. [Access Hollywood]
- Courtney Love re-emerges to perform at the Sundance Film Festival. [Radar Online]
- Lena Dunham on Internet trolls: "You get the sense there are some 58-year-olds who wish you dead." [Vulture]
- Rosemarie DeWitt is jumping ship from The Newsroom. [THR]
- Katie Couric opens up, eloquently, on the subject of losing her husband and sister to cancer: "It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters." [Radar Online]
- Charlie Sheen showed a grain of sanity when he told Piers Morgan that he's given up all his firearms and is now in favor of gun control. [Mediaite]
- For Kate Moss's birthday, her husband Jamie Hince took her on a weeklong trip to Napa Valley to swish wine around in her mouth and not swallow it. [The Sun]
- Leonardo DiCaprio admits that in his free time he basically just gets drunk and does Irish jigs with Fabrizio below deck: "'I take what I do very seriously when I'm on the set that's all I focus on. So my vice is to hang out with my friends, talk about absolutely nothing of importance and act like a complete idiot. It's like therapy to just be a complete idiot with my friends." [Entertainmentwise]
- In a weird, sad interview, Leann Rimes says that "her body wouldn't let her stop" having the affair with now-husband Eddie Cibrian. [CeleBitchy]
- Geri Halliwell is dating a Russian millionaire. [Toronto Sun]
- Jennifer Aniston is the new face ("and body!!!11") of Aveeno. [People]
- Here is Rosie O'Donnell's newborn daughter Dakota. [People]
- Paul Dano is set to play the young, pre-weight, pre-SMiLE Brian Wilson in a biopic. [Rolling Stone]
- Chay Tates cueballed himself. [Us Weekly]
- Kate Upton might have Cat Daddied her way into a TV co-hosting job opposite Maria Menounous. [Page Six]
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Creamy Mushroom Pasta Yan Yan - Asia's Top Blogger's Food Wish
Even worse, I noticed the website had received numerous awards as Asia's top blog, and that Xiaxue was a bona fide Internet superstar. As you know, I religiously answer every single comment and email I get (except for the ones I don't), so I quickly emailed her to find out about her ignored comment.
She quickly replied and said she wrote this long teary comment about how my recipe had aided in her quest to get hitched, and she told me to keep on blogging. I was so excited to get an email from such an important person for a change, instead of the usual stuff I get from you people.I thanked her, and offered to film any recipe she wanted. She asked for creamy mushroom pasta that she gets out, but wants to make at home. So, this video recipe was her food wish. I watched a couple of her videos and learned that she likes to be called Yan Yan, which explains the recipe's name.
By the way, she said that Xiaxue is almost impossible to pronounce if you're not Chinese - which I took as a challenge, and as you'll hear in the clip, I try on several occasions. Enjoy!
2 tbsp olive oil
3/4 lb white mushrooms, sliced
1/4 lb shiitake mushrooms, sliced
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
2 cloves minced garlic
2 oz sherry wine
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup cream
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
1/2 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
1/2 tbsp chopped fresh chive
1/2 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon
8 oz fettuccine
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LOL @ "...I was so excited to get an email from such an important person for a change, instead of the usual stuff I get from you people."
- October 14, 2008 at 12:36 AM
- Unknown said...
W00t! SINGAPORE!!! How about trying to cook a Singaporean dish like chicken rice or something like that?
- October 14, 2008 at 2:41 AM
- Chef John said...
send me the recipe!
- October 14, 2008 at 2:49 AM
- Steven Nichol said...
'mushrooms not rushrooms'?! I love your corny gags, but this one sends a shudder.....
Nice job, i'll try this tomorrow.
- October 14, 2008 at 5:53 AM
- dsowerg said...
Xiaxue!!! Hahaha!!!
Pronunciation: "Shia Shuay" (try not to emphasise the "h" too much.
Anyway yeah, your recipe sounds like the type we can get here. Not sure about the sherry though. I suspect only the high end restaurants here will use wine to cook this dish as alcohol costs a bomb here in Singapore.
As for chicken rice, there isn't one standard chicken rice recipe. Here's a link to give you an idea of what many people call the national dish of Singapore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainanese_chicken_rice
- October 14, 2008 at 6:57 AM
- Connie T. said...
I love mushrooms. This looks good. (from a not important person in blogland.)
- October 14, 2008 at 7:21 AM
- Chef John said...
chicken rice looks yummy, i will try to master this. thanks!
- October 14, 2008 at 8:55 AM
- Chef John said...
thanks connie, i hope everyone can tell i was kidding!
- October 14, 2008 at 8:57 AM
Something to keep in mind is that portobello mushrooms have more potassium than bananas.
- October 14, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Hi John, if you happened to know how to make Baklava or moussaka or any nice eggplant dishes, please please teach me! I wish to make for my greek guy =)
- October 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- Chef John said...
Bill, yes, but did you know that the portobello is the same mushroom as the common white button? It's just allowed to grow to full size, and grown in light which gives the color.
Crimini mushrooms are the same also, species as porto and button.
- October 14, 2008 at 12:15 PM
- Connie T. said...
If you want an unusual mushroom, check my blog. I have stinkhorn mushrooms growing. I can send you one. I didn't know portobello is the same as white button. Thanks for the info.
- October 14, 2008 at 12:24 PM
- ghanima said...
Perhaps we lowly commoners can aspire to such greatness as this recipe.
- October 14, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Blood Red Roses said...
anon: if you search for Moussaka in the top left corner, you'll find the recipe from June 6, 2007.
I love mushrooms! and any excuse to make them into main course dish!
- October 14, 2008 at 12:49 PM
- Chef John said...
stinkhorn mushrooms? they sound great. No need to send, I'll just take a peak.
gh, lowly commoners? I never said lowely. ;)
- October 14, 2008 at 12:54 PM
- Unknown said...
Hmmm. Actually eve+line has a point. There isn't really a standard chicken rice recipe. Lol.
And, isn't Xiaxue pronounced See-ah(Xia)Shoe-air(Xue)?
- October 14, 2008 at 1:05 PM
- Chef John said...
yeah, See-ah(Xia)Shoe-air(Xue), that's what I said.
- October 14, 2008 at 1:13 PM
- Unknown said...
Hmmm. I think you gotta emphasize more on the consonants. You seem to meld it into one word when it's two. Anyway, can I substitute white wine for the sherry vinegar?
- October 14, 2008 at 1:48 PM
That was kind of rude, your " I was so excited to get an email from such an important person for a change, instead of the usual stuff I get from you people" comment.
Last time I will be visiting this blog.
- October 14, 2008 at 2:08 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, you can, but nothing too dry since its the little bit of sweetness in the sherry that makes it so delicious.
- October 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM
- Chef John said...
Hey anonymous, if you didn't realize that was a joke, you haven't been reading this blog very long!
Besides, you're not allowed to come back...I've banned you for 3 years for not getting a joke...whoever you are.
- October 14, 2008 at 2:56 PM
- Steffen P said...
Can you really get parmigiano reggiano in tin cans, in the states?
Seriously? :D
- October 14, 2008 at 3:53 PM
Dear Anonymous "Last time" Visitor: Fondness of good food, well prepared, and a sense of (Chef John's) humor - 2 key ingredients for your browsing enjoyment while visiting this site. Use it, or YOU lose it! Get it? Or, get outta here!
- October 14, 2008 at 4:26 PM
- Chef John said...
No, but you can get "Parmesan" in cardboard shakers, and some people think that's the same as parmigiano reggiano
- October 14, 2008 at 5:09 PM
I'm about to make this and the video is: "No Longer Available". Will check the Vimeo site.
- October 14, 2008 at 7:02 PM
Dude, you made me laugh to times.
It's allways fun to watch your recipies, anyway i wanted to ask if you got any tip how to start eating mushrooms for someone who really dislikes it, aka me..
I dont know why i dont like it :S I just had pasta with some mushroom pasta the other day almost the same as yours and it was delicious but i didnt eat the mushrooms >.<
So, do you have any tip on how to start craving for mushrooms?
Cheers for the videos as allways.
- October 14, 2008 at 7:10 PM
- Chef John said...
looks Ok to me. All these video upload sites blink once and a while, just try again if that ever happens.
- October 14, 2008 at 7:40 PM
- Chef John said...
Caesar, have you tried smoking pot?
- October 14, 2008 at 7:42 PM
chef john, how do u make chicken stock?
- October 15, 2008 at 5:37 AM
- LF said...
Hey Chef John,
First time I read your blog, found it through TasteSpotting website, which I stumbled upon...
I tried this recipe, but since I did not have any Tarragon or Thyme, I used Romarin (rosemary I think)... These were just the best simplest fastest pastas I ate in while... GREAT !
- October 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM
I had hoped to watch the video one more time before making this dish but actually didn't do too badly with the technique, my own deviation was that I added the stock and cream simultaneously which made for a runnier sauce but the taste was there and we enjoyed the dish.
- October 15, 2008 at 9:21 AM
blood red roses: thanks! I've found it. But if I want to do away with the mashed potatoes, what do I use to top the dish?
How do make baklava?
- October 15, 2008 at 10:05 AM
What a neat story :)! I would love to feature your recipe on our Demy, the first and only digital recipe reader. Please email firstname.lastname@example.com if you're interested. Thanks!
- October 15, 2008 at 1:20 PM
- PrimeBrit said...
"you people"
I feel elated by your comment Chef, the Government seemingly make me feel whole!
- October 16, 2008 at 8:12 AM
- Scotch said...
can you use 2% milk instead of heavy cream? how about whole milk or vitamin d milk instead?
- October 16, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- Chef John said...
you can, but it won't thicken as the cream does. Use cream, and then go for a jog.
- October 16, 2008 at 7:03 PM
John, No i havnt :P why?
- October 17, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Chef John said...
I was kidding. It increases your appetite...I've heard from people.
- October 17, 2008 at 12:15 PM
HAHAHA, well i rather stay of the shrooms then :P
- October 19, 2008 at 9:17 AM
hi, i'm wondering if there is a sub for sherry wine. is there?
oh, and the cream for this.. any brands to recommend?
- October 20, 2008 at 6:11 AM
Chef, why do you make it a point to say don't rinse the pasta? When would you ever rinse pasta? I've only ever "just drained."
- October 20, 2008 at 12:33 PM
hahahah her real name is actually chen yan yan. xiaxue is an icq nick she used in her younger days and then made into her blog name..
- October 20, 2008 at 12:36 PM
- Chef John said...
Believe it or not, some cookbooks and chefs tell people to rinse pasta to remove some of the starch. It's more of a habit for me to say.
Mabes - Cream is cream, so any brand will work. Local is always better though. You can sub Marsala wine for sherry, or even a not-dry white wine.
- October 20, 2008 at 1:43 PM
- nhat4 said...
Hi you!
Your blog very nice
Welcome my blog to watching video cool...thanks for your visit!
- October 22, 2008 at 11:49 PM
hey chef john! :) i'm from Singapore and i've been visiting your blog numerous times ever since Xiaxue posted the video/link on her blog! i simply love your recipes and your humour! keep it up! :)
- November 5, 2008 at 10:15 AM
- Vincent said...
Quick note--I'm betting vermouth would also work well in this dish, as I've substituted it for sherry in a few recipes with stellar results.
I'm late to the game here, but I'll definitely try this tonight.
- November 6, 2008 at 5:56 PM
chef john,
alcohol is a no no in my household. is there anything that could remotely replace sherry? or should i just leave it out?
- November 9, 2008 at 10:37 AM
- Chef John said...
its an important factor in the taste. You know all the alcohol burns off right? does that matter? It adds a bit of sweetness and acidity, so maybe a very small drizzle of rice wine vinegar.
- November 9, 2008 at 1:17 PM
- Unknown said...
what about white wine instead of sherry? this looks delicious!
- November 13, 2008 at 3:22 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, but nothing too dry, sherry is sort of on the sweeter side.
- November 13, 2008 at 4:08 PM
- pmichael said...
Oh my goodness. I just made a variation on this to suite my tastes and I thought it would be a crime not to share. I used a third of a bottle of amber ale instead of the sherry, a couple basil leaves instead of tarragon, homemade beef stock instead of chicken, and for the cheese I used half parmesano reggiano and half aged gouda. Also threw a tiny bit of rosemary in there. Delicious. As always,thanks for the inspiration Chef John.
- November 20, 2008 at 10:47 PM
- nashira said...
haha i love your but this the first time i am commenting cos i am frm singapore but too bad a not important person :) anyways love all your recipes <3
- April 9, 2009 at 6:39 AM
how many serving is this for? thank you
- April 12, 2009 at 6:01 AM
- Chef John said...
- April 12, 2009 at 12:39 PM
I made this last night and it was glorious!
I tasted the sauce not long after the chicken stock went in and woah! It was already packed with flavor.
From a global perspective I believe it's possible for this dish to bring an end to all wars.
Bill from Oz
- July 1, 2009 at 4:48 PM
is there anything you can use to substitute for the sherry wine? i remember reading somewhere that oj or pineapple juice could be used as a substitute. thanks for the recipe, hopefully i can try this out soon.
- September 19, 2009 at 8:42 AM
- Chef John said...
oj or pineapple juice? I don't think so. Use Sherry!
- September 19, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Varuna Singh said...
Hey chef,
I tried this tonight, and everyone at home loved it! This dish is truly unique and wonderful. Keep up the great spirit. You inspire me to cook more! Lovely mushroom pasta. Loved it!
- October 8, 2009 at 10:15 PM
Hi Chef,
I cooked this the other night. It was delicious. If I was to do some advance prep on this recipe for a dinner party, would I cook this to the point just before adding the cream? Or is this a recipe that must be cooked start to finish?
- January 20, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, you can do it that way. enjoy!
- January 20, 2010 at 1:41 PM
great recipe...my boyfried and i loved it !
- July 21, 2010 at 7:53 AM
I love this recipe ....but yours it's a litle more complicated ...can i use a diferent white vine ???
- February 10, 2011 at 7:33 PM
Hi chef john! I'm so surprised to see Xiaxue's name on your video on youtube. (: Because I love xiaxue and I love you too! Keep up the good work, asian food rocks !
From a singaporean fan,
Hannah Ong
- July 8, 2011 at 10:55 PM
- Araxjan said...
This recipe was a hit!! Highly recommended. It was a bit time consuming (the mushrooms) but the end result was so delicious and perfect!
- November 3, 2011 at 12:00 PM
"such important people other than the usual ones from you guys"
*tears rolls down cheek as sad music plays*
- March 3, 2012 at 12:48 AM
Absolutely amazing! We live to eat great food and this dish was restaurant worthy in our opinion! Unfortunately I wasn't able to get fresh tarragon today so I used 2 dashes of dry fennel just before the fresh herbs went in. WOW!
Thank you Chef John,
Liiz & Doc
- March 6, 2012 at 9:43 PM
This pasta is excellent. I cheated and used some white wine I had on hand instead of the sherry. Delicious. Chef John does it again.
- April 26, 2012 at 1:41 PM
- Josh, Split said...
I threw in some pancetta cubes and reduced the salt to compensate. Was absolutely delicious, thanks Chef John.
- May 2, 2012 at 1:01 PM
Mildred Yeo said...
I cooked this for several guests. It was heavenly! Thanks, Chef John!
- August 29, 2012 at 9:39 AM
- Unknown said...
Chef John, where's the video?
- May 24, 2013 at 10:58 AM
Chef John! LOVE all of ur recipes. Can I use 4 cheese tortellini instead of the pasta that u used? What are your thoughts?
- November 7, 2014 at 10:37 PM
- Michele Cryan said...
18% or 35% cream?
- June 5, 2015 at 4:50 PM
- Unknown said...
Nice! I read your comments about replacing sherry with marsala and I like-y that idea a whole bunch! Gonna make this tomorrow with fresh egg pasta and use the marsala, and replace chives with green onion then use pecorino instead of parmasan (but less quantity as it is much sharper.) I think we're on to something! I'll get back in a few days and let you know how it turned out. Also gonna use baby bellas instead of the shitakes (because I'm frugal like that, and...) because I think they pair better with the marsala. Fingers crossed!
- June 26, 2015 at 5:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Thanks Chef! It turned out divine. Your the BEST!!!
- June 28, 2015 at 1:05 PM
- Cindy said...
Aaah, Chef. I made your Creamy Mushroom Pasta tonight for our anniversary dinner (grilled ribeyes, asparagus, fresh snapped green beans, homemade dinner rolls and homemade peach ice cream. It was a wonderful meal. The star was your recipe for the mushroom pasta. It was the only bowl that was cleared of its contents. My hubby asked me to make it again - at least twice. Thanks for your contribution toward a beautifully romantic evening
- August 24, 2015 at 11:11 PM
- Michele Cryan said...
I added baby spinach along with the fresh herbs. Excellent addition in my humble and oh so common opinion.
- March 3, 2016 at 8:46 AM
- Unknown said...
Although I am a devout Food Wishes disciple, I am just now stumbling on to this recipe. I am envisioning this enhanced with truffle oil. (minus the tarragon). Thoughts?
- November 23, 2016 at 4:51 PM
- Cherio said...
This is a favorite main course meal with homemade fettuccini. Wonderful dinner. Thanks Chef John
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Posted by Home Energy on November 16, 2006
Formed in 2005, Partnerships for Home Energy Efficiency (PHEE) is a joint effort by the US Department of Energy, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development to reduce the energy consumption of the average U.S. home by 10% by 2015.
Currently, US residents spend more than $160 billion a year to heat, cool, light and live in their homes. US residences account for approximatley 21% of our country's energy use, and contribute approximately 17% of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
Meeting the PHEE's goal of a 10% reduction in energy use would save Americans $20 billion annually in utility costs, increase the affordability and comfort of homes, reduce demand for natural gas by more than 1 quadrillion Btus (about 1 percent of the total U.S. energy demand), and avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from more than 25 million vehicles.
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Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen says people need to be sure they're giving to a legitimate Sandy Hook charity by doing research before writing a check.
"It's outrageous and it's despicable," says Jepsen about the fraudulent organizations and e-mails that claim to collect donations for victims after natural disasters and mass shootings. "Vigilance is the bottom line."
But Jepsen also points out that there are people who have good intentions and want to help, but don't understand the process for starting a charity and may not be acknowledging the wishes of the victims' families.
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Unfortunate is not the word, discustting. People that profit from other peoples pain, When I vision what the person looks like I think of a sewer rat running around sniffing and eating what ever they can get the nasty hands on. But they will have their day, that is certain.
Thanks for posting the correct way to send funds and letters to the victems families. Is this the only 3 that are set up? Our family wants to send all of them something, This is the tragedy has changed me, my heart is broken. Anderson I have watched you all week and you are doing a great job at letting us know each of these victems individually, there deaths will count for something, Change will happen, ive been praying for them all day everyday and that the country does something to make all children aan dteachers safe. Ive been afraid to send my daughter to school and I dont want to live like this, Change has to happen, God be with you and those families
It might be appropriate to revisit the sgt Robert Bales killings in Afphganistan. If you want to try to understand what goes on in the mind of someone who can commit these horrible crimes you have one locked up in Leavenworth.
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NEW YORK — A federal mediator has finally been able to get the NHL and the players' association back together Saturday for their first face-to-face meeting since talks broke down two days earlier.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly went to union headquarters for what a players' association spokesman called a "small group meeting" with the sides and mediator Scot Beckenbaugh.
Beckenbaugh had already held separate meetings with the union and league Saturday before bringing them together.
Beckenbaugh spent more than 12 hours Friday walking back and forth between the Manhattan headquarters of each side — beginning at 10 a.m. EST and wrapping things up shortly before 11 p.m.
While Beckenbaugh never got the league and the union in the same room then, enough was accomplished to convince the sides to keep going.
"I'm looking forward to continuing the process," Daly wrote to The Associated Press in an email late Friday night.
Beckenbaugh began Saturday by holding a meeting with the union and then walked over to talk to NHL officials. He then made the trek back to the players' association for the group meeting shortly before 1 p.m.
With the hockey season hanging in the balance, Saturday could prove to be a pivotal day on all fronts. The sides have less than a week to reach a new collective bargaining agreement to save what would likely be a 48-game hockey season.
Beckenbaugh also took part in talks during the 2004-05 lockout, which forced the cancellation of the whole season.
The players' association will conclude a two-day vote among its members at 6 p.m. Saturday that will determine whether the union's executive board will again have the authority to declare a disclaimer of interest.
If the vote passes, as expected, the disclaimer can be issued, and the union would dissolve and become a trade association. That could send this fight to the courts and put the season in jeopardy. The disclaimer would allow players to file individual antitrust suits against the NHL.
Earlier this week, a self-imposed deadline expired on the first authorization that union members gave the board. The initial threat seemed to work in getting the NHL back to the bargaining table, but talks broke down Wednesday night after the deadline passed without action taken by the union.
Now the players want to regain the leverage the potential disclaimer gives them.
Bettman set a Jan. 11 deadline for a deal so the season can begin eight days later. A 48-game season is the minimum Bettman said the league would play.
All games through Jan. 14, along with the All-Star game, have been canceled, claiming more than 50 percent of the original schedule.
Trust has become a major impediment in the talks that appear to have been rescued to some extent by Beckenbaugh.
On Thursday morning, the sides solved a problem that arose regarding the reporting by clubs of hockey-related revenue, and how both sides sign off on the figures at the end of the fiscal year. The union felt the language had been changed without proper notification. That dispute was ended in about an hour, but clearly discord was present in the talks.
Another small meeting, the second of the day without union head Donald Fehr, addressed the pension plan. That one lasted just under two hours and marked the last time the sides met this week.
The players' association held a late Thursday afternoon conference call to initiate its second vote on the disclaimer of interest.
A sense of progress might be why the union didn't declare the disclaimer Wednesday, but any optimism created after the deadline passed has taken several hits since.
The NHLPA filed a motion in federal court in New York seeking to dismiss the league's suit to have the lockout declared legal. The NHL sued the union in mid-December, figuring the players were about to submit their own complaint against the league.
But the union argued that the NHL is using this suit "to force the players to remain in a union. Not only is it virtually unheard of for an employer to insist on the unionization of its employees, it is also directly contradicted by the rights guaranteed to employees under ... the National Labor Relations Act."
The court scheduled a status conference for the sides on Monday.
The sides have traded four proposals in the past week — two by each side — but none has gained enough traction. Getting an agreement on a pension plan would likely go a long way toward a deal that would put hockey back on the ice.
Fehr believed a plan for a players-funded pension was established before talks blew up in early December. That apparently wasn't the case, or the NHL changed its offer regarding the pension in exchange for agreeing to other things the union wanted.
The salary-cap number for the second year of the deal — the 2013-14 season — hasn't been agreed to, and is another major point of contention. The league is pushing for a $60 million cap, while the union wants it to be $65 million with a floor of $44 million.
In return for the higher cap, players would be willing to forgo a cap on escrow.
Other issues still needing resolution include the maximum length of player contracts, the yearly variance in salary of those individual deals, and how long the CBA should be in effect.
Both sides seem content on it lasting for 10 years, but they have different opinions on whether an opt-out should be allowed to be exercised after seven years or eight.
Last season, the NHL posted record revenues of $3.3 billion. The sides seem likely to agree on a 50-50 split of the pot in any new deal. The NHL is the only North American professional sports league to cancel a season because of a labor dispute, losing the 2004-05 campaign to a lockout. A 48-game season was played in 1995 after a lockout stretched into January.


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caterwaul \ KAT-uhr-wawl \ intransitive verb; To make a harsh cry. — Dictionary.com
This Day in History
Aug. 8, 1969: At a "zebra" street crossing in London, England, photographer Iain Macmillan takes the photograph that will be used as the cover for the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album. The image will become one of the most famous in modern music history.
Number to Know
14: Number of different lyrics in the song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album, penned by John Lennon as an ode to Yoko Ono. The song lasts 7 minutes and 47 seconds.
Website of the Day: Abbey Road Crossing Cam
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — The judge in the murder trial of George Zimmerman said Saturday that prosecution audio experts who point to Trayvon Martin as screaming on a 911 call moments before he was killed won't be allowed to testify at trial.
Judge Debra Nelson reached her decision after hearing arguments that stretched over several days this month on whether to allow testimony from two prosecution experts. One expert ruled out Zimmerman as the screamer and another said it was Martin. Defense experts argued there was not enough audio to determine who the screams are coming from. Zimmerman's attorneys also argued that the state experts' analysis is flawed.
Nelson ruled that the methods used by the experts aren't reliable. But her ruling doesn't prevent the 911 calls from being played at trial.
The screams are crucial pieces of evidence because they could determine who the aggressor was in the confrontation. Martin's family contends it was the teen screaming, while Zimmerman's father has said it was his son.
Opening statements are set for Monday in the second-degree murder trial for the former neighborhood watch volunteer who says he fired on the unarmed black teenager in self-defense last year. Zimmerman is pleading not guilty.
The elimination of the audio experts will likely shorten the trial by a week. Before the ruling, attorneys had predicted the trial could last two to four weeks after opening statements.
A spokeswoman for prosecutors didn't immediately return an email Saturday.
Audio experts from both sides testified at different times during the hearing, which stretched over three weeks. Voice experts were hired by lawyers and news organizations to analyze the calls, which were made during the confrontation between the two. The experts arrived at mixed conclusions.
In deciding whether to admit the voice-recognition technology used by prosecution audio experts Tom Owen and Alan Reich, Nelson had to determine whether it is too novel or whether it has been accepted by the scientific community at-large.
"There is no evidence to establish that their scientific techniques have been tested and found reliable," the judge said in her ruling.
Owen was hired by the Orlando Sentinel last year to compare a voice sample of Zimmerman with screams for help captured on 911 calls made by neighbors. He said Zimmerman's voice doesn't match the screams. He only compared Zimmerman's voice to the 911 calls because he didn't have a voice sample for Martin at the time.
"The screams don't match at all," Owen testified during the hearing. "That's what tells me the screams aren't George Zimmerman."
Owen also testified that remarks Zimmerman made in a conversation with a police dispatcher aren't a racial slur. He testified Zimmerman said, "These f—- punks."
Reich testified in a report for prosecutors that the screams on the 911 tapes were from Martin, and the defense does not want him to testify at trial.
Reich's analysis also picked up words that other experts couldn't find. They include the words, "This shall be" from Zimmerman and "I'm begging you" from Martin.
Reich's testimony would "confuse issues, mislead the jury," the judge said.
In contrast, a British audio expert testified for the defense that it would be extremely difficult to analyze voices by comparing screaming to a normal voice.
"I've never come across a case in my 13 years where anybody's tried to compare screaming to a normal voice," said audio expert Peter French.
A second audio expert for the defense, George Doddington, also criticized prosecution experts who said Friday that screams and pleas on a 911 recording likely belonged to Martin.
"It's all ridiculous," Doddington said.


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An aging actor converts a lesbian to heterosexuality in a finalist by the author of Portnoy's Complaint
An "eye-watering" scene that involves a green dildo won Philip Roth a spot on the shortlist for the 2009 Bad Sex in fiction award, given by Great Britain's Literary Review. The prize is intended to draw attention to and discourage "the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description" in books other than pornography and erotica.
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"The Pulitzer prize-winning Roth makes the line-up for The Humbling, in which the ageing actor Simon converts Pegeen, a lesbian, to heterosexuality. The Literary Review singled out a scene in which Simon and Pegeen pick up a girl from a bar and convince her to take part in a threesome. Simon looks on as Pegeen uses her green dildo to great effect."
The Guardian story has the names of all the finalists, who include Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand and Amos Oz for Rhyming Life and Death. Oz is an Israeli novelist who was widely seen as a frontrunner for the 2009 Nobel Prize. The judges spared the latest novel by Jonathan Lethem, the subject of an earlier post ("Is Jonathan Lethem Courting a 2009 Bad Sex Award With These Lines From Chronic City?"). The winner of the prize will be announced on Nov. 30 at London's In & Out Club.


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CONWAY, N.H. (AP) — A 15-year-old New Hampshire girl who disappeared while on her way home from school nine months ago is safely home with her family, the state attorney general said Monday.
Abigail Hernandez was reunited with her family on Sunday evening, Attorney General Joseph Foster said.
Foster said the family has asked for privacy. He said Abigail's mother, Zenya Hernandez, told authorities "today we are the happiest people on earth."
Police said Abigail was last seen Oct. 9 after leaving Kennett High School in Conway. Police said she walked her normal route toward her house and sent several texts between 2:30 p.m. and 3 p.m. But she never made it home.
Police did reveal several months ago that she had written home to her mother. When the letter surfaced, FBI Special Agent In Charge Kieran Ramsey said there was the possibility that Abigail had run away but that someone could still be coercing her into staying away from home.
"The long and short of it is, quite honestly, we are just happy that she's home safe and sound right now," Ramsey said Monday. He declined to discuss specifics of the investigation.
In a brief statement, Foster said the criminal investigation in Abigail's disappearance will continue. Jane Young, chief of the attorney general's criminal bureau, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Monday afternoon.
After Abigail disappeared, police initially said she made it home, but later said she hadn't. Police also at first said she made a call about 6:30 p.m. that day but later said that, too, was wrong.
After she vanished, police consistently said they have no evidence to suggest anything suspicious and were treating her disappearance as a missing-person's case.
The disappearance rattled the town of 2,300 residents in Mount Washington Valley, who were reminded of the still-unsolved killing of another young girl from rural New Hampshire three years ago: 11-year-old Celina Cass disappeared from her West Stewartstown home in July 2011, and her body was recovered a week later in the Connecticut River.
In Conway, rescuers fanned out for days over the heavily forested terrain that surrounds the townhouse where Hernandez lives with her mother. Police also searched by air, stopped traffic and handed out missing posters and used boats on the Saco River and Pudding Pond.


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The Things a Brother Knows. By Dana Reinhardt. Wendy Lamb/Random House Children's Books, 256 pp., $16.99. Publisher's suggested ages: 14 and up.
By Janice Harayda
Not long ago, the Canadian novelist Joan Clark argued that North American publishers should drop the "young adult" label and replace it, as their British counterparts have, with two new categories: "under 12" (to be shelved in the children's section of bookstores) and "over 12" (to shelved in the adult section). Clark makes a strong case that the confusing YA classification can keep both adults and children away from books they might like.
You could hardly find a better example of the problems with the genre than The Things a Brother Knows. This novel deals with a complex topic: A 17-year-old named Levi struggles to make sense of the troubling behavior a brother who, after serving with the Marines, shows PTSD-like symptoms that threaten to estrange the siblings. Dana Reinhardt gives this subject a relatively mature treatment that involves jokes about porn and masturbation, occasional strong language, and serious moral and psychological questions: What do we owe veterans? What price do families pay for their members' military service? And is it OK to do bad things such as hacking into a brother's computer because you want to help him?
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Best line: "We'd been to Israel twice already, in the psychotic heat of summer."
Worst line: No. 1: "He doesn't leave his fucking room, Mr. Hopper." No. 2: "I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the world uglier than the sight of your own father's pubic hair." No. 3: "I meant that 'little private Levi time' thing as a euphemism. Masturbating. Get it?"
Published: September 2010
Editor: Wendy Lamb, who edited the 2010 Newbery Medal winner, Rebecca Stead's When You Reach Me.
Caveat lector: This book was based on an advance reader's copy. Some material in the finished book, including the cover, may differ.
Furthermore: Jacqueline Woodson's Peace, Locomotion also deals with the effect on a family of a son who returns from a war with symptoms resembling those of PTSD.
You may also want to read: Joan Clark's essay on the problems with the young-adult label.
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U.S. District Judge Denise Cote said Apple knew that no publisher could risk acting alone to try to eliminate Amazon.com's $9.99 price for the most popular e-books so it "created a mechanism and environment that enabled them to act together in a matter of weeks to eliminate all retail price competition for their e-books."
The Manhattan jurist, who did not determine damages, added: "The evidence is overwhelming that Apple knew of the unlawful aims of the conspiracy and joined the conspiracy with the specific intent to help it succeed."
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Apple attorney Orin Snyder had told Cote previously that she would set a "dangerous precedent" if she concluded that Apple manipulated e-book prices as it entered the market in 2010. He did not immediately respond to a message for comment Wednesday.
Neumayr said Apple's introduction of the iBookstore "gave customers more choice, injecting much needed innovation and competition into the market, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry."
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She quoted Jobs, who died in 2011, as saying he understood publishers' concerns that Amazon's $9.99 price for new releases was eroding the perceived value of their products and that Apple was willing to try pricing e-books at $12.99 and $14.99. She noted that Jobs bought an e-book for $14.99 at the launch of Apple's e-book store and told a reporter that day that Amazon's $9.99 price for the same book would be irrelevant because soon all prices will "be the same."
"Apple has struggled mightily to reinterpret Jobs's statements in a way that will eliminate their bite," Cote wrote in the 160-page opinion. "Its efforts have proven fruitless."
Cote said damages could be determined at a later point, though she did not immediately schedule a trial on them.
The state attorneys general are seeking unspecified damages. The federal government is seeking an order that Apple be banned for two years from agreements that let publishers rather than retailers set prices and that the company be prohibited from future antitrust law violations. The Justice Department also is asking Apple to establish an antitrust compliance program and antitrust training for executives and to put in place an independent monitoring trustee.
The trial had featured testimony from executives for Apple, publishers and Seattle-based Amazon.com. Witnesses from the publishing industry conceded that they were disappointed that Amazon.com was selling e-books so inexpensively when Apple came along in late 2009 with plans for its e-book store.
"Through their conspiracy they forced Amazon (and other resellers) to relinquish retail pricing authority and then they raised retail e-book prices," Cote wrote. "Those higher prices were not the result of regular market forces but of a scheme in which Apple was a full participant."


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